Nathaniel B. Dial

Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (24 April 1862-11 December 1940) was a US Senator from South Carolina (D) from 4 March 1919 to 3 March 1925, succeeding William P. Pollock and preceding Coleman L. Blease.

Biography
Nathaniel Barksdale Dial was born in Laurens, South Carolina in 1862, and he became a lawyer in 1883. He served as Mayor of Laurens from 1887 to 1891 and again in 1895, and he worked in banking and various manufacturing enterprises before serving in the US Senate from 1919 to 1925. He was not renominated in 1924, and he returned to his businesses, dying in 1940.